I loved the PBS Grantchester series. Interestingly enough, they were running at nearly the same time the series Happy Valley, with the wonderful Sarah Lancashire, from Last Tango in Halifax, and Siobhan Finnernan from Downton Abbey. Coincidentally, James Norton, the title character in Grantchester, played the truly deliberately evil bad guy in Happy Valley. Oops, tv in the books thread--sorry!

Ooh, I haven’t seen Grantchester, maybe I should. Sorry for crossing threads!

Im listening to Leviathan Falls in a sporadic fashion and I just got to where the ship goes Dutchman and then doesn’t and I wanted to tell someone that that whole business reminds me of Childhood’s End and I want to say many other stories but mainly that one paragraph of Star Maker that Childhood’s End is kind of based on (I had to Google Olaf Stapledon to get the title Star Maker and he came up as “British philosopher” which I did not expect, but did give me the title) but framed as horror rather than ecstasy or enlightenment or whatever. I don’t really have anywhere to go with that thought but maybe if I put it out there for someone else to think about it won’t rattle around in my brain quite so loud.

Also, Jade Legacy and the entire Green Bone Saga is really good. Full of conflict and violence and tragedy so if you aren't up for those maybe wait for general conditions to improve before reading, but both emotionally involving and thought-provoking

ETA: perhaps some description would be in order. It’s sort of a fantasy mashup of wushu movies and The Godfather.

um ... it seemed like something some Buffistas might like, but I got an email from Hamilton books and they have a number of Anne Radcliffe's books (paperbound, not terribly expensive) in stock, as well as Varney the Vampire. (I'm slightly abashed to admit that I've read just about all of her books, although they didn't have my favorite: The Italian)

I found an Ursula K. LeGuin tribute in the form of a collection of stories called Dispatches from Anarres at the library today. I had no idea that this was happening.

The Green Bone Saga is one of my heart's favorites. Fonda Lee is a kickass delight.

I am having a hard time reading outside of student work (too many screens) but have been loving the paper version of Ryka Aoki's Light from Uncommon Stars.

I loved that book! Music, demons, space aliens, doughnuts!!

I need to re-read that book. I went into it cold and was vastly confused for most of it. I think the 2nd read will be much better.

I'm loving it too. And now also (thx to a friend's rec) working through Red Comet, the brilliantly done Plath biography.

I started reading The Wife Upstairs last night, and I keep laughing out loud at the way the author has updated the Jane Eyre characters. My biggest problem with the book so far is that the main character isn't actually much like Jane Eyre, imho.

I read the first book of the Green Bone Saga, which I enjoyed, and I'm trying to decide if I should reread it before I read the next two.